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It is breeding season again, and two of my Kayuadi dwarf girls have gone off feed after thier first encounter with a male.

The other girl is still smashing her face on her cage front whenever she sees me and eating voraciously. Every time I introduce her man, whom she bred with the last two years sucessfully, she wags her tail, everts her cloaca slightly, expells water from her vent and smears urates around on the cage floor. She lifts her tail high into the air as well. lastly, she defecates if she has one on deck so to speak-

This is a clear message that she is not ready or willing to breed and though it seems erotic and inviting, it has the opposite effect.

I figure that she will accept the male one of these days and i will keep trying with her.

Anyone else seen this before- I have with Burms and Retics over the years and have read about it from other breeders and seen it discussed by the Barkers but haven't heard it discussed in a while-

Winslow

I've had young females do this before; young meaning 2-3 yrs in age. They evert the tissues often leaving a smear of blood on the cage floor, and often leaving a nice 'present' for me to clean up

` I have several female Yellow Anacondas who do that. The females will wave their tails and evert their cloaca. The males, in other cages in the same room go crazy, get very active, and refuse to eat. Also, it happens at varying times of the year.
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` Stop the world! I want to get off.

Winslow,
As you have stated, I have seen it with the introduction of a male with burmese and retics, but only rarely. It does not appear to be a common occurance with them. Additionally, but not saying it doesn't occur, I have never seen it personally with blood pythons, the Antaresia complex, the Eryx complex, or green anacondas however.

Kelly

This topic was brought up in another forum and the general response from retic breeders is that she is not ready. Apparently it is pretty common in retics.